"What most people didn't realize was that the Ontario government had also put virtually all the land the province owns in Haldimand and Norfolk counties on the table for consideration. Among the land, owned by the Ontario Realty Corporation; that was on the block were the Sprucedale Correctional Centre in Simcoe, the former OPP station on Highway 3, an assortment of salt domes throughout the area, a huge assembly of land near Dunnville, and the old Cayuga courthouse."
"This was all put on the table in negotiations," [Toby] Barrett says. "It's in Hansard."
"...the various salt domes and ministry of transportation yards along [Highway] No. 3 and the former OPP station," Barrett says, "they're perfect locations for smoke shacks, that kind of stuff."
Exerpts from Christie Blatchford's HELPLESS Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us. p. 113, Doubleday Canada, 2010.
